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Wall Street Humor

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This one is from The Disciplined Investor.

  • The US has made a new weapon that destroys people but keeps the building standing,. Its called the stock market.  – Jay Leno
  • Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are ?? Wall Street is now being called Wal Mart Street. – Jay Leno
  • What’s the difference between a guy who lost everything in Las Vegas and an investment banker?  A tie!
  • What worries me most about the credit crunch, is that if one of my cheques is returned stamped ‘insufficient funds’. I won’t know whether that refers to mine or the bank’s.
  • more quotes… visit The Disciplined Investor.

History of McDonald Packaging

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I have this one in my Google Reader’s bookmark for a while; but haven’t had a chance to post it in my blog yet.

It is from BusinessWeek web site, showing the history of McDonald packaging over the past 32 years. It’s pretty interesting, isn’t it?

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The Origin of Nokia Tune

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If you own a Nokia phone, you might be familiar with “Nokia Tune”, a tune used by Nokia on all of their mobile phones sold after 1993.

Where does Nokia Tune come from? According to Nokia Conversations, the tune is taken from a composition called “Gran Vals” (a.k.a. Grand Valse) by Francisco Tarrega. According to Wikipedia, it was Anssi Vanjoki (together with Lauri Kivinen) who selected tune. I don’t know Anssi personally; what I know two things about him:

  1. He used to be the boss of the boss of the boss of my boss. :)
  2. He is very funny and smart guy.

Check YouTube video below. It is showing someone playing the guitar version of Gran Vals. Can you hear Nokia Tune? :)